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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Ate There
Gordon T. Yee
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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May 2002
Vol. 79 No. 5
p. 569
Abstract
In the book Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, Alice (of Alice-in-Wonderland fame) walks through a mirror into a mirror-image world. Assuming that she is not changed by this transition, her enzymes are still only capable of processing molecules of the handedness of her native world. In short, she has a problem that will severely curtail the duration of her stay because her body cannot make use of most of the calorie-containing molecules that would exist naturally in the mirror-image world. So the question is, what can Alice eat in the mirror-image world that provides nutritional value to her?

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 Yee, Gordon T. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 569.
*  Keywords
 Chirality / Optical Isomers; Humor / Puzzles; Food Science
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